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Sunday, April 20, 2008

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Robert Seddon says: We begin just after the alternative version of the pre-promise scene, and as you can see this version starts off familiar but exhibits much more foreshadowing than the final script; this seems to be an emerging trend in the unused text.

『ここで回想へ{EOL}ニブルヘルム村・旅立ち編』{END}

(Go to the flashback here.Nibelheim Village - Setting Off)

Robert Seddon says: Placeholder text; refers to the promise flashback.

Tifa:Hey, Cloud!This flower's roots are attached.If I make sure it doesn't wilt maybe it will grow!

Robert Seddon says: From a technical point of view, the noteworthy thing about the above is that it doesn't correspond to even a blank dialogue box in the (English language) PC version's files as viewed in Loveless.exe. Maybe it isn't referenced in the game's own tables... I don't know; but the presence of such things – there seem to be quite a few in the Honey Bee Inn – doesn't make our job any easier. The use of 'Limit'-style colour-scrolling text on a single kanji is striking: why would so much emphasis be wanted? Maybe the early plans were to have less subdued formatting. We can see by comparing this in-development promotional screenshot NexuzJannis found... ??? ...with how the same text looks in the final game... ...that at some point Square clearly changed their minds about the division of text between boxes; maybe they also made other stylistic changes at the same time. (Incidentally, note that Marlene's pose is different too.) Even so, why emphasise that word? Maybe Square once planned to do more with the flower.

『ドカドカドカ!!というSEがはいるよてい』{END}

("Bang bang bang!!" sound effect planned.)

Robert Seddon says: The English files have: Thudthudthud!! That ???? is supposed to come in. It now seems this refers to Barret's footfall as he charges in (reading SE as 'sound effect').

『ピンボール動く{EOL}・・・・・・{EOL}・・・・・・予定』{END}

(Plans for the pinball machine to move......)

Robert Seddon says: This could well be another placeholder; 『』 brackets seem to be used for those elsewhere. The next couple of pieces of unused Seventh Heaven dialogue can be found in the English files, but there are a couple of points to note.

Robert Seddon says: The last line seems to correspond to …I'm going out… in the English files, which made me think Cloud was walking out of the door, or maybe blacking out (since I was thinking about how the Materia outtake starts with him slumped by the pinball machine). Reading this, however, I now suspect this is Cloud's first time on the pinball machine lift: his reaction makes it sound as though he hasn't already seen it used as a lift, which suggests a different order of events on first entering Seventh Heaven. This is all speculative, of course.